Allies insist that, after a gloomy start in the job, the chancellor had long planned to shift up a gear – but her announcement of a third Heathrow runway and a ‘Silicon Valley’ from Oxford to ...

A fourth-generation farmer has branded Rachel Reeves’s Budget an “insult to working people”. Michael Dart, who runs Darts ...

Mel Stride said: “The biggest barriers to growth in this country are Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer and their job destroying budget - and nothing in the Chancellor’s speech proved otherwise.

Rachel Reeves’s much-trailed speech today is a ... However, her speech in Oxfordshire felt like another Budget speech only three months after she delivered her first one, as she listed ...

The Chancellor has been warned against another tax raid after forecasts revealed she could be on course for a Budget deficit.

WITHIN hours of Rachel Reeves giving a speech about boosting economic growth, my hairdresser tearfully shut her salon after a decade in business. She says Labour’s Budget destroyed her dream.

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers the government's first Mansion House speech on financial services in the City ... from ...